1. Executive Summary on the First Meeting of
ITU-T Study Group 20 “IoT and its applications including smart cities and communities (SC&C)” Meeting
19-23 October 2015
Nasser Almarzouqi, Chairman, ITU-T SG20

2. Final List of Participants
Statistics
Participation: 179 participants (18 delegates connected via remote participation); 82 Member States, 1 Associate, 11 Academia, 18 Recognized Operating Agencies, 9 ROIO, 37 SIO, 1 WTSA-08 Palestine and 15 Guests.
94 Contributions
123 TDs
7 Incoming Liaison Statements & 17 Outgoing Liaison Statements
Final List of Participants
Study Group 20
Sector
Qty
Academia 11
Associate 1
Guest 15
ITU Staff 5
Member States 82
Recognized Operating Agencies (ROA) 18
Regional or other International Organizations (ROIO) 9
Scientific or Industrial Organization (SIO) 37
WTSA-08 Palestine
Grand Total
179

3. Attendance Remote participation Participants by Region Region Qty
Africa 1
Americas 6
Arab
Asia & Pacific 7
Europe 3
Grand Total 18
Participants by Region
Region
Qty
Americas 22
Europa 23
CIS 7
Africa 5
Asia & Pacific 78
Arab 15
Other 29
Total
179

4. Results of the 1st Meeting
Rapporteurs and Associate Rapporteurs have been designated
Liaison rapporteurs to the collaborating international organizations have been designated
Terms of reference of the Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of Things & Smart Cities and Communities (JCA-IoT&SCC) have been agreed (TD24Rev2)
Next JCA-IoT&SCC meeting to be held in conjunction with the next SG20 meeting
Participation of SMEs (C58Rev.1)
It was agreed that SG20 will volunteer to carry out a pilot project to promote the participation of SMEs if this option is made available by Council Working Group on Financial and Human Resources and ITU Council
Mailing Lists are available at:
Meeting reports:
The draft Report of Working Party 1/5 can be found in TD87Rev4
The draft Report of Working Party 2/5 can be found in TD88Rev2

5. Next SG20 Meeting Next SG20 Meeting: 18-26 January 2016, Singapore
Forum on IoT & Smart Cities: 18 January 2016, Singapore

6. SG20 Structure – agreed TD03Rev.5
Title
PLEN
Question 1/20
Research and emerging technologies including terminologies and definitions
Working Party 1
Internet of Things (IoT)
Question 2/20
Requirements and use cases for IoT
Question 3/20
IoT functional architecture including signalling requirements and protocols
Question 4/20
IoT applications and services including end user networks and interworking
Working Party 2
Smart cities and Communities (SC&C)
Question 5/20
SC&C requirements, applications and services
Question 6/20
SC&C infrastructure and framework
See:
List of Questions:

7. Results (Q1/20) Promotion of ITU-T SG20 5 Liaison statements
ITU to build synergies with the IoT Week conference in June 2017 through a joint event to promote SG20’s work
Some potential areas of work for consideration in the next meeting
Internet of Things testbeds and crowdsourcing potential for IoT standardization and smart cities
IoT framework and roadmap for rural areas in developing countries
Personal data protection and privacy impact on IoT standardization
Study the impact of IPv6 transition on IoT standardization
Identify and study emerging IoT technologies
Report of Q1/20:

8. Results (Q2/20) Discussion started on Q2/20 work plan:
To develop further requirements of IoT in the different vertical fields (plan to be defined for involvement of stakeholders)
To collect IoT-enabled use cases in support to the requirements studies (inputs from regions already in progress)
To identify relevant ecosystems and associated models in the different IoT-enabled fields
To identify requirements for services based on the integration with advanced ICT (e.g. Cloud-enabled IoT services)
Q2/20 is now responsible for studies on:
Big Data in IoT, IoT Accounting and Charging, Wearables, network requirements, device management
Q2/20 Living list:
Q2/20 Report:

9. Results (Q3/20)
Discussion started on Q3/20 work plan:
To develop new architecture aspects required to realize convergence based on IoT (plan to be defined for involvement of stakeholders)
To identify requirements for signalling and control architectures for IoT and SC&C
To identify requirements for enhancements to existing signalling requirements and protocols required in the Internet of things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M) communication services and/or applications
Q3/20 is now responsible for ongoing studies on:
IoT-Self Organization Networking (draft Y.IoT-son) , IoT-constrained device networking (draft Y.IoT-cdn),
New studies include:
IoT architecture aspects, requirements for signalling and control architectures in IoT
Q3/20 Living List:
Q3/20 Report:

10. Results (Q4/20) Discussion started on Q4/20 work plan:
To progress the work on Y.WoO-hn, Y.IoT-ASF, etc.;
To discuss new work items including liaison statements.
Question 4/20 discussed 6 Contributions including Liaison Statements. During the meeting, Q4/20 has made progress on 2 draft Recommendations and has accepted 4 new work items as initial draft recommendations. At the meeting, Q4/20 produced 8 output documents including revised texts of on-going and initial draft Recommendations, living list and the meeting report.
Q4/20 Report:
Q4/20 Living List:

11. Results (Q5/20) Progress on draft Recommendations & Supplements:
Working title
Title
Y.SC-Residential
Requirements of Smart Residential Communities
Y.SC-OpenData
Framework of Open Data in Smart Cities
Y.SC-Interop
Identifier service requirements for the interoperability of Smart City applications
Y.SC-Overview 
Overview of smart cities and communities, and the role of information and communication technologies
Supplement Supp.SC-guide to Y.4000 series
Smart sustainable cities: a guide for city leaders
Supplement Supp.SC- stakeholders to Y.4000 series
Setting the framework for an ICT architecture of a smart sustainable city
Supplement Supp.SC-buildings to Y.4000 series
Intelligent sustainable buildings for smart sustainable cities
Supplement Supp.SC-plan to Y.4000 series
Master plan for smart sustainable cities"
Q5/20 Report:

12. Results Q6/20 Progress on draft Recommendations & Supplements:
Working title
Title
Y.frame-scc
Framework and high-level requirements of smart cities and communities
Y.infra
Overview of city infrastructure
Y.ism-ssc
A Technical Framework of Integrated Sensing & Management for Smart Sustainable Cities
Y.isw-ssc
Integrated Sensor Web Resource Metadata for Smart Sustainable Cities
Supplement Supp.IMSC to Y series
Integrated management for smart sustainable cities
Supplement Supp.MSinfra to Y.4000 series
Multi-service infrastructure for smart sustainable cities in new- development areas
Supplement Supp.Overview-SC- infra to Y.4000 series
Overview of smart sustainable cities infrastructure
Supplement Supp.framework- arch-SC to Y.4000 series
Setting the framework for an ICT architecture of a smart sustainable city
Q6/20 Report:

13. Coordination Sessions
SG20 & SG16
SG20 & SG5
Approval of the terms of reference of the joint correspondence group on Security and Privacy for IoT (CG-IoTsec) with the purpose of facilitating preparation of the report to be presented to TSAG and to support effective collaboration on security and privacy for IoT between SG17 and SG20.
Co-conveners are SG20 and SG17 Chairmen.
Mailing list:

14. Forum on “Internet of things: empowering the new urban agenda ”
This forum provided a platform to discuss why the Internet of things will be at the heart of smart city transformation.
When: 19 October 2015
Where: ITU Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland
Programme & Presentations:

15. Overview
14 December: 10th ITU Symposium on ICTs, Environment & Climate Change - From the New Climate Agreement to the New Urban Agenda, jointly organized with UN-Habitat.
15 December: Forum on "Turning the E-waste Challenge into an Opportunity", jointly organized by BCRC-Caribbean, CRBAS, ECLAC, ITU, UNESCO, UNIDO and UNU.
16 December: Training on “Green ICT Policies and Standards”, jointly organized by CRBAS, ECLAC and ITU. (morning)
16 December: Forum on "Driving the Connect 2020 Agenda". (afternoon)
December: Forum on "Powering Smart Sustainable Cities With the Internet of Things", jointly organized by ITU, UN-Habitat and UNESCO.

16. THANK YOU
ITU-T SG20 “IoT and its applications including smart cities and communities (SC&C)” itu.int/go/tsg20
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